February 13 to May 01, 2017

For this assignment, we had to work continuously throughout the semester creating a custom font of our own. At first, my design and sketches were more blocky and completely different than this; my final result. After a lot of revisions and finding what did and didn’t work for me, I settled on a handwritten approach with a whimsical, playful feel. The biggest challenge, once I settled on an overall design, was weight of the letters and the tilt. I found that even when I fixed one, the other would be out-of-whack again. What was most helpful in getting everything uniform was making sentences out of the letters, I found that seeing them next to each other to form words was more helpful than comparing them side by side as they’re presented in this blog. After I submitted the final version to my teacher, she pointed out that some of the letters were thicker than the others and not all were a uniform height. I think I found and fixed the ones that stood out, and the edited version is what you see here.